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Medical Dictionary, Medical Abbreviations and Other Search Engines - MediLexicon. Stedman's Online | Home. Medical Dictionary - Comprehensive Medical Terminology Search. Search for medical terms using our medical dictionary. Our dictionary contains definitions and explanations of thousands of medical terms and also features pronunciations and abbreviations. You can search for medical dictionary definitions using either the search system or alphabetical listing. As an extra feature, we have included a fuzzy search that uses Google's search engine to provide alternative variations on your search. Our comprehensive free online medical dictionary is powered by Stedman's. The medical terminology dictionary contains over 100,000 medical terms that can be accessed quickly and easily.

The results of your search will display an exact match for your search term as well as displaying search results that contain your whole search term within a medical term / phrase (assuming a match can be found). * Stedman's, part of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, provide a comprehensive line of health-science publications for healthcare professionals and medical students. Medical Abbreviations and Pharmaceutical Abbreviations Dictionary. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions and hospital orders (sometimes referred to as sig codes).

This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals (which is a separate article in itself). Capitalization and the use of periods is a matter of style. In the list, Latin is not capitalized whereas English acronyms are. The period is used wherever there are letters omitted in the abbreviation. Abbreviations which are not recommended by the Joint Commission, an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization which offers "accreditation" to hospitals and other "healthcare" organizations in the United States (not binding on U.S. physicians, but required of organizations who wish "accreditation" by the Joint Commission) are marked in red. Numerical Notation[edit] When expressing a numerical quantity, Roman numerals are commonly used in place of arabic digits so as to avoid confusion.

Currently "Discouraged" Practices[edit] References[edit] DAW Codes. Glossary of Terms and Symbols Used in Pharmacology » Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | Boston University. Copyright 1995-2004 by Trustees of Boston University . All rights reserved. Edward W. Pelikan, M.D. Professor Emeritus and Former Chairman of Pharmacology Boston University School of Medicine Questions or comments should be mailed to Carol Walsh, Ph.D.

Please report any faulty links on the Contact Us page. Return to top An amount of drug or chemical in units of mass such as milligrams. A: The earlier segment of a biphasic plot of log C against t (following intravenous injection of a drug) represents the “distributive phase” of a drug’s sojourn in the body. a is used as a subscript for pharmacokinetic parameters appropriate to the distributive phase, e.g., t1/2a, Vda, etc. Cf. b, Compartment(s), Volume of Distribution, Half-Life Absorption Rate Constant: See ka Accumulation, Accumulation Ratio: See Css Accuracy: “Accuracy”, as formally defined, and the elements that contribute to it can be only briefly outlined here. Accuracy Validity Reliability Sensitivity Amplification Precision Comparability Economy Cf. Glossary of Medical Devices and Procedures: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definitions1.

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